Event Information

Venue(s):
Lina Edwin's Theatre

Proprietor / Lessee:
Billy Emerson
Thomas [manager] Maguire

Manager / Director:
Billy Emerson
Thomas [manager] Maguire

Conductor(s):
John S. [minstrel] Cox

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
15 July 2024

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

07 Oct 1872, Evening
08 Oct 1872, Evening
09 Oct 1872, Evening
10 Oct 1872, Evening
11 Oct 1872, Evening
12 Oct 1872, Matinee
12 Oct 1872, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Emerson's California Minstrels;  A. J. Talbot;  J.A. Palmer;  Sam [minstrel tenor] Holdsworth;  John [minstrel tenor] Fenich
2)
"Paddy’s the boy"
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  A. J. Talbot
3)
Enchantress, The, "Let all obey"
Composer(s): Balfe
Participants:  J.A. Palmer
4)
"Come back to Erin"
Composer(s): Barnard
Text Author: Barnard
Participants:  Sam [minstrel tenor] Holdsworth
5)
Martha, duet
aka Duett, "Martha"
Composer(s): Flotow
Text Author: Friedrich
Participants:  J.A. Palmer;  John [minstrel tenor] Fenich

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 07 October 1872, 7.
2)
Review: New York Clipper, 19 October 1872, 230.

The duet from Martha was “enthusiastically applauded.” “The company is an excellent one and embraces among its vocal and instrumental corps some of the best performers who have ever appeared upon the minstrel stage, and consequently their average business is good.”